The ‘skinny guy with a funny name’ is proclaiming himself a Trump fan and MAGA follower now, but that’s a very recent about-face As many Americans are now familiarizing themselves with Vivek Ramaswamy, a smooth-talking Republican candidate who is quickly climbing in the polls, it might be wise to read …
Read More »US Middle East ‘normalization’ plan rejects reality
A Washington-brokered normalization of relations between Israel and Saudi Arabia is in nobody’s interest right now From the disastrous Afghanistan withdrawal to Chinese-brokered peace between Saudi Arabia and Iran, the US administration of President Joe Biden has been overseeing an era of declining American power across West Asia. In the …
Read More »What scares investors away from China?
Beijing has made itself ‘uninvestable’, US commerce czar admonishes after her country deployed sanctions, embargoes, and the military to do just that By Timur Fomenko, a political analyst Hawkish US Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo has recently undertaken an official visit to China. She is the 4th such US official to …
Read More »We’re all living in Trump’s world, and there’s no escape
The former US president and current Republican frontrunner masterfully orchestrated the hype around his own arrest Many folks may say that former President Donald Trump, the clear frontrunner for the Republican nomination in the 2024 US presidential election, had it rough last week. Quite the contrary, Trump has had an …
Read More »The Wunderwaffe delusion: Why Ukraine’s Western backers are happy to feed Zelensky’s fantasies about American F-16s
The 50-year-old jet won’t turn the tide of the conflict in Kiev’s favor, but it profits its partners to keep pretending By Chay Bowes, a journalist and geopolitical analyst As the Western establishment media begrudgingly accepts, what many analysts have long predicted – that Kiev’s counteroffensive is a catastrophic failure – …
Read More »In trade wars, the US uses the same economic weapons against foe and friend alike
Washington wants Beijing to repeat the fate of Tokyo, whose economic stagnation was triggered by a pact with America By Timur Fomenko, a political analyst With China’s ongoing economic slowdown, one of the predictions for its fate voiced recently is that it could suffer from “Japanification.” The term refers to …
Read More »How one new member can complicate things for BRICS
Argentina’s upcoming presidential election highlights the international group’s primary challenge The 15th BRICS Summit in South Africa has finally kicked off and a lot of murmurs are making their way through the media. Most of us in the political commentary business planned for this, as, after all, it has been …
Read More »BRICS should set up a kiddie table for Western leaders like Macron
The French President could use some of the same condescending treatment Brussels gives to EU aspirants There’s no ‘F’ (for France) in ‘BRICS’ but that didn’t stop French President Emmanuel Macron from trying to “F” it up. It wasn’t that long ago that Western leaders wouldn’t give the BRICS the …
Read More »The EU doesn’t know how to not be a vassal of the US anymore
Former Fox News host Tucker Carlson has tried to show Americans how Washington has exploited Western Europe Tucker Carlson, of Fox News fame, recently met with Serbia’s President Aleksandar Vucic in Budapest, Hungary. The journalist pointed out that the destruction of the Nord Stream pipeline has put a serious strain …
Read More »How China’s economic slowdown became a weapon of psychological warfare
Washington is eager to amplify any trouble Beijing is facing to chase away investors and cull growth By Timur Fomenko, a political analyst The economy of China is clearly undergoing some difficulties. A slowing property market – combined with rising youth unemployment and a fall in new loans – are not …
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